An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .

A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .

Have you ever wanted to emulate the Duchess of Cambridge's style? Well, now there's an app for that .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .